So I apologize for the goofy-ness of this question, but do you all have recommendations for newbies to this site for reading the topics on The D-Word. Do you:
A) Go back to page 1 on a topic and start reading from there?
B) Start from the most recent post and read backword?
C) Go back a few days and just start from there?

In some cases the topics go back a few years and I'm wondering if it makes sense to spend the time reading things that could very well be outdated now.

Is anyone else getting bogus emails from other D-Word members? I've gotten a couple supposedly from Ben Kempas and one from Tom Furtwangler. Each simply contains a mysterious link and is likely a phishing expedition. Is there any chance that somehow someone's broken through the D-Word firewall and harvested email addresses? I think I've gotten one email before from Ben – but none from Tom, so that can't be the cause of this. Any ideas, anyone? Not terribly worried yet, but thought I'd at least pose the question.

Actually, when I click on Tom's or Ben's name, it reveals a completely unrelated "Yahoo" email addresses. So they're using D-Worder's names but not email addresses – except for mine. Just not sure how they've made the connection between us.

This just started yesterday; all three start out with "Hey Robert" followed by a completely unrecognizable URL – which I've refrained from clicking on. So it's not really very clever or subtle.

I am noticing that my google chrome tab freezes most (maybe all) the time when I open a topic with an embedded video on the page. Only the browser tab with the D-Word stops responding. The others remain functional. But this has happened pretty frequently lately (this last week). Donno if its a problem with chrome, with my laptop or with d-word but thought I'll report it anyway.

Actually it's a bug with Chrome. It frequently crashes with video embeds. This is due to the fast pace at which Google forces you to update the browser, so it regularly has bugs (including crashes and regularly showing the wrong fonts). While I try to use Chrome as my main browser, I always end up back in Safari since it is far less buggy. Firefox imitates Chrome with rapid updates and also has lots of bugs... This is a sad side effect of the browser wars.

Apologies to anyone affected by the downtime yesterday. Our host had a hardware failure that affected The D-Word between 10:53pm and 12am (GMT) last night. No data was lost, our backups are all fine and it was all back up and running in just over an hour. I woke up to over 1000 automatic error notifications in my inbox, and was quickly relieved to find that our host's engineers had solved the problem quickly while I was sleeping. Unfortunately these things happen from time to time. I hope no one lost a big post they had been composing for ages...